From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: make ethtool the driver's responsibility
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:14:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140605151440.GB3621@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401896290-12942-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net>
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 05:38:10PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>
> Currently, cfg80211 tries to implement ethtool, but that doesn't
> really scale well, with all the different operations. Make the
> lower-level driver responsible for it, which currently only has
> an effect on mac80211. It will similarly not scale well at that
> level though, since mac80211 also has many drivers.
>
> To cleanly implement this in mac80211, introduce a new file and
> move some code to appropriate places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fine by me...
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-05 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-04 15:38 [PATCH] cfg80211: make ethtool the driver's responsibility Johannes Berg
2014-06-05 15:14 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2014-06-05 23:16 ` Bing Zhao
2014-06-06 6:10 ` Johannes Berg
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